Christmassy, Christmassier, Christmassiest
Was your Christmas Christmassy?
Was it Christmassier than previous Christmases?
Was it the Christmassiest one so far?
End these with “ward”, not “word”
These words sound like they should end with word but their correct spelling ends with ward.
Awkward, afterward, backward, coward, downward, forward, homeward, inward, onward, upward and westward.
Did you study for all the quizzes?
quiz, quizzes
quizzable
quizzed
quizzer, quizzers
quizzical
quizzicality, quizzicalities
quiuzzically
quizzicalness
quizzing
quizzism
Better tweak that grammar a little
tweak means a slight adjustment
He tweaked the controls to bring in a better signal
tweek is not a word
I’ve been racking my brain on this one
nerve-racking means intensely distressing or irritating to the nerves
It is not recking, wracking or wrecking.
It comes from the medieval torture instrument called the rack.
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A bow hunter must be a stalker to be successful
to stalk means to sneak up on something or follow someone constantly
He would stalk his victims for weeks.
to stock means to fill grocery store shelves with products
He would stock the shelves at night.
This is the real McCoy
The real McCoy means the real thing.
It appears to have originally been the real McKay in Scotland. It was used to refer to G Mackay & Co Ltd’s whisky.
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If you don’t vote, don’t complain!
Easily misspelled election terms:
campaign
candidate
caucus
constituency
constituent
delegate
federal
gubernatorial
incumbent
independent
partisan
precinct
rhetoric
It is spooky to not spell Halloween words correctly
ghost, not gost (silent h)
witch, not which
pumpkin, not pumkin
skeleton, not skelton
cemetery, not cemetary
frightening, not frightning
jack o’ lantern with the apostrophe replacing the letter f
tombstone, not toombstone
werewolf, not wherewolf
Did someone say no one showed up?
anyone means any person
everyone means every person
someone means some person
no one means not one person
Note that no one is two words, unlike the other three.
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